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Housing could be part of the preventative approach that GIRFEC takes to ensure that every child has the best start in life, in education and in every other aspect, to help them to join the adult world.
That provides a good example of how the critical mass of expertise at a local level is simply not enough to deal with the really big challenges. Although management is best delivered locally, we still have to provide for some access to central expertise on the really important issues.
Although it is inevitably disappointing that not 100 per cent of the required skills or materials are sourced from down the road, our feeling is that as much as is practically possible and consistent with its frameworks and best-value obligations does actually come from Scotland.
The Scottish National Party supports independence for Scotland because we think that it is the best way of developing a fairer and more prosperous Scotland.
Sometimes, that does not happen at local level, even with the best will in the world and the best policies, and even if the necessary funding is in place.I will cite a couple of examples.
I suspect that you will find that it has in front of it only the information that is included in DEFRA’s reports to it, which have at best been sketchy on Scotland. The most recent draft that we saw said something along the lines of, “We are advised that Scotland is compliant.”